Word: afterglow
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...contemporaries, the 18th century was the Age of Elegance, one of those brief moments in history when man can abandon himself to the art of living. Warmed by the afterglow of France's great Sun King, Louis XIV, the Versailles court lived a lavish life. Its taste and style were enviously mimicked in the other courts of Europe and in the newly decorated salons of Paris' prosperous bourgeoisie. The age's artists par excellence were Francois Boucher and his brilliant pupil, Jean Honore Fragonard...
...Afterglow. When the public read the evidence in the Hiss case and other revelations made around that time, it did not think that all the accusations about Communism were nonsense. It expected some housecleaning-or at least an official admission that the house had been a bit dirty. Truman stubbornly continued to resist such suggestions. When Acheson made his smug statement on Hiss, he set up the pins for McCarthy...
...witch-hunting of witch-hunters, or by proving that McCarthy is a slippery character and no gentleman. "McCarthyism" is going to be around until Harry Truman, the President of the U.S., eliminates from U.S. foreign policy the tendency to appease Communism. This tendency is the red afterglow of Communists in & around the Government. It keeps "McCarthyism" bright & shining...
...dissented in grave words. They were appalled by the "wide departure from any semblance of trial as we know that institution." Warned Murphy: "[Yamashita's trial] is unworthy of the traditions of our people . . . The high feelings of the moment doubtless will be satisfied. But in the sober afterglow will come the realization of the boundless and dangerous implications . . . No one in a position of command in an army, from sergeant to general, can escape those implications...
...SCAP has not seen enough of "the sober afterglow" to let the Japanese read Reel's The Case of General Yamashita...